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I am so sick of winter.
Everything outside is cold, colorless, and dead. I am two of those three things.
Things need to change, and given my continued inability to control the weather, I think it might have to be me.
In 8 hours, I will be sipping a warm beverage in my favorite coffee shop. It will be a start.
Au revoir, February; I have big plans for March.
I’ve been wanting to learn how to photograph the moon for a while now, and last night’s total lunar eclipse seemed like the perfect night to give it a try. It has been bitterly cold here, and I stood out in the parking lot, shivering, with the tripod when I got home last night to get these shots. It was a perfectly clear night here, and the sky was beautiful.
Think the big game that’s drawing to a close is nothing but a silly game? That the Super Bowl is, at best, important only as a pop culture phenomenon–of sports, commercials, and parties that probably make Tostitos more money than any other time of year?
Naturally, sociologists tend to look at things–including football–a little bit differently. In fact, I keep bumping up against football in my academic life. So what’s the deal?
CNN is reporting that Ann Coulter is saying she’ll back Hillary Clinton over John McCain, should he become the Republican Party’s nominee. While I think it’s entirely fair to take issue with McCain’s politics if you’re a conservative Republican, to me, this statement reeks of hidden agenda. What could scare Democrats away from Hillary Clinton more than Ann Coulter campaigning for her? At this point, I think Ann Coulter would scare away a good number of voters on either side, whomever she decided to campaign for.
And this is exactly why I think Ann Coulter is probably secretly, evilly brilliant: because now she’s using her status to take shots at candidates in a completely new way.
For the record, I haven’t decided who I’m voting for yet, Clinton or otherwise, so it’s not as if I’m angry that Coulter’s endorsement is necessarily hurting “my” candidate; she makes my blood boil in ways I can’t explain. Yes, I am liberal, but I have friends and colleagues from across the political spectrum–and I love and respect them, all the same. Coulter, on the other hand…I’ve seen her speak (yes, in person) and admitting that she is probably secretly smart in a certain way is just about the nicest thing I can say about her.
Maybe next, Michael Moore can endorse Mike Huckabee.
